sweetly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
    sweet.
    • Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly
    • how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare
    • talking sweet to each other

WordNet


Sweet"ly adverb
Etymology
AS. swetlice.
Definitions
  1. In a sweet manner.

Webster 1913